Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-24
of my unforgiving spirit, be denied divine

choice-for one or the other it will be
your complete pardon of her or Gods eter-
nal banishment OF you. But, says some
man, THAT fellow who cheated ME out of
those goods, or damaged my business credit,
or started that lie about me in the news
papers, or by his perfidy broke up my do
nestle happiness, forgive him | cannot,
forgive him | will not" Well, brother,
take your choice. You will never be at
peace with God till yOu are at peace with
man. Feeling as you now do, you would
not get 80 near the harbor of heaven as to
see the lightship. Better leave that man
with the God who said: Vengeance is
mine, will repay" You may say: Il
will make him sweat for that yet; ! will
make him squirm, | mean TO pursue him
to the death, " but you are damaging your
self more than you damage him, and you
are making heaven for your own soul an
impossibili'y. If he will not be reconciled
TO you, be
RECONCILED To HIM.
In 1--WE or six hours it will be sundown.
The dahlias will bloom against the west
ern sky. Somewhere between this and
that take shovel and bury the old quar-
| rel at least six feet deep. "Let not the
sun 90 down upon your wrath
"But," you say, II have more than
can bear; too much is put upon me and i
am not to blame if | am somewhat revenge
ful and unrelenting." Then | think OF
the little child at the moving of some
goods at store. The father was putting
some rolls of goods on the child's arm,
package after package, and some one said
THAT child is being overloaded and so
much ought not to be put upon her,"
when the child responded: Father
knows how much / can carry" and God,
our Father, will not allow too much impo-
sition on his children. In the day of eter-
nifty it will be found you had not one an
nOyance too many not one outrage too
many. Your heavenly Father knows how
much you can carry.
Again: We ought not 10 allow the pas
sage of the sunset hour because We may
associate the sublimest action of the
soul with the sublimest spectacle in ma
ture. II is n most delightsome thing to
have our personal experiences allied with
certain objects. There is tree or river
bank where God first answered your pray
ers. You will never pass that place or
think Of that place without thinking Of
glorious communion. There was some gate
or some room, or some garden walk, where
you were aflianced with the companion
who has been your chief JOY IN life. You
never speak of that place but with smile.
Some Of you have pleasant memories con-
nectei with the evening star, or the moon
in its first quarter, or with the sunrise, be-
cause you saw it just as you were arriving
at harbor after a tempestuous voyage. For
ever and forever, o hearer,
ASSOCIATE THE SUNSET
with your magnauin.ous, out and out, un-
limited remuneration of all hatreds and
forgiveness of all foes. | admit il is the
most difficult of all graces to practice. and
at the start you make complete failure,
but keep on in the attempt TO practice il.
Shakespeare wrote ten plays before he
reached Hamlet, and sevente IN plays he
fore he reached Merchant of Venice, and
twenty eight plays before he reached
Macbeth. And gradually you will come
from the easier graces to the most difficult.
Beside that it is not 4 matter OF personal
determination so much as the laying hold
of the almighty arm of God, who will
help us to do anything we ought TO do
Remember that in all PERSONAL contro-
versies the one least to blame will have to
| take the first step at pacifcation, if il is
ever effective. The contest between Aes-
chimes and Aristippus resounds through
history, but Aristippus, who was least
to blame, went to Aeschines and
said: 'Shall we not agree to
be friends before we make ourselves
the laughing stock of the whole
country?' And Aeschines said: Thou
art far better man than J. for began the
quarrel, hut thou hast been the first in
healing the breach, and they were always
friends afterwards. SO let the one of you
that is the least to blame take the first
step toward Conciliation. The one most
in the wrong will never take it. Oh, it
makes one feel splendidly TO be able by
Gods help 10 practice unlimited forgive
ness. 1t improves ones body and soul.
1t makes you measure three or four more
inches around the chest and improves your
respiration so that you can take deeper
and longer breadth. 1t improves the
countenanCe by scattering the gloom, and
frightening the forehead, and looseping
the pinched look about the nOstril and lip,
and makes you somewhat like God him
self
HE Is OMNIPOTENCE,
and we cannot copy that. He is indepen
dent of all the universe, and We cannot
copy that. He il Omnipresent, and we
cannot copy that. But He forgiyes with a
sweep all faults, and all neglects, and all
insults, aud all wrong doing, and in that
we can copy Him with mighty success.
Go harness that sublime action Of you soul
TO an a9tumnal sunset, the hour when tho
gate of Heaven opens to let The day into
the eternities and some Of the glories es
cape this way through the brief opening.
| We talk about the Italian sunsets and the
sunset Of the Apprentices, and sunset amid
the Corderillas But ] will tell you how
you will see graDder sunset than any
mere lover OF nature ever beheld, that is
by flinging into it all your hatreds and
anmosities, and let the horses of fire
trample them, and the chariots of fire roll
over them, and the spearmen Of fire stab
them, and the beach of fire consume them
and the pillows OF FIRE oyerwhelm them.
the sublimest thing God does is the sun
set. The sublimest thing you can do is
forgiveness Along the glowing banks OF
this coming eventide let the divine and
the human be concurrent.
Again: We should not let the sun
20 down on our wrath because it is Of lit
tie importance what the world says Of You
or does to you when you have the stfiuent
God OF the sunset as your proyider and de-
fender People talk as though it were
dxed spectacle OF nature and always the
same. But no one ever sa two sunsets
alike, and if the world has existed six
thousand years there have been about two
million one hundred and ninety thousand
sunsets, each Of them as distinct from all
the other pictures in the gallery Of the
sky as Titian's Last supper" Ruben's
Descent from the Cross" Raphael's
TRANSPORTATION" and Michael Angeles
last Judgment" are distinct from each
other. If that God of such infinite re-
sources that he can put on
THE WALL OF TEE SKY
| oooh Y,;oht mora than fha nu,x. au.' the